"Just a bit further." GLaDOS said again.
Abbi rolled her eyes. She had been down in Old Aperture for hours, searching for an ancient computer terminal that might contain GLaDOS' instruction manual or something. Still, it beat watching her mother fight back screams of pain every time she glitched.
"You're the glitch."
"Once you find these files, mom won't need you anymore. Did you think of that?"
"Glitch Witch Ditch Switch Bi-"
Abbi shook her head to silence the voices. It had been fun at first, talking to cubes, commiserating cameras, even listening in on the panels. She knew it wasn't real, but there was some child-like pleasure in having imaginary friends...until they turned on her.
"Don't take it personally, everyone will turn on you at some point. It's only a matter of-"
Abbi and the voices stopped in their tracks at a break in the catwalk. There was a portalable wall behind her, and a floor that she could easily paint with her gel gun. The solution was obvious, and another test subject would have flung across that gap in a heartbeat, but Abbi was not Chell. She was a little girl who was still recovering from a traumatic fall, and who was currently fighting off a panic attack.
"Calm down Abbi." GLaDOS said over her headset. "The office is on the other side of that door. It's just this one jump."
Abbi steadied herself, bent her knees, and...sprayed Conversion Gel on a nearby wall and portalled across the gap. "You're going to have to face your fear eventually." GLaDOS said disdainfully.
"I got across the gap, didn't I?" Abbi said. "Now, about those files… "
Abbi plugged a small device into the terminal, and files flashed across the screen, too fast to read.
"I'm putting a copy of these files on the transponder drive, in case the virus deletes my copy." GLaDOS said. "None of the data concerns you, do not read it. Understood?"
Abbi nodded. "Let's see…" GLaDOS continued. "No, no..I'm perfectly happy with my core size, thank you very much. Ah, here we go, Human Improvement Nanites. I can repurposed these to safely remove this virus. Last known location-" GLaDOS trailed off. "Oh, you have got to be kidding me…"
